We'd not use these in a production environment ourselves as manufacturers own crimp tools are the only way to ensure reliabiliy. However when faced with needing to make up some new crimp based connector for development and being faced with the manufacturers own tool costing a small fortune, these bad boys from ebay can come […]

Atten 858D SMD If you ever need to do surface mount rework, remove surface mount components, etc, etc, this tool is simply brilliant.  The most brilliant thing about it is the price – for around GBP 40.00 you get a tool that used to cost several hundred pounds.  Indeed many still do and we're not […]

We we're sceptical when we purchased this but it's turned out to be a great buy.  Previously we assembled most prototypes in house using a compressor and precision liquid dispenser to place a blob of solder on each pad, then placing the SMD component on and then soldering each pad with a soldering iron.  The […]